B. Separate Data Privacy Statement: Provision of our website for the general public

I. Provision of our website for the general public

If you only use the website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or communicate information to CLAAS in any other way (e.g. using our contact form), CLAAS shall only collect the personal data transmitted by your browser to our server. Data collection is a technical requirement in order for us to show you our website. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1b) GDPR. Your visit to the website is recorded in the log files; this is necessary to guarantee the functionality of the website and the security of the IT systems. The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6(1f) GDPR. You are able to object to the processing of data on the basis of a legitimate interest at any time with future effect, see Section A.VII. For the aforementioned purposes, we also have a legitimate interest in data processing.

The following categories of data shall be collected when you visit the website: Usage and traffic data, technical documentation and logged data, e.g.

date and time of access
time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
IP address
host name of the accessing computer
website used to call up website
websites called up via the website (content of the request)
pages visited on the website
report on whether access was successful
volume of data transferred
information about the browser type, language and version used
operating system

This data shall be erased as soon as it is no longer required to achieve the purpose of its collection. As regards provision of the website, this is the case once the respective session has ended. If the data is stored in log files, this is the case after a maximum of 30 days. The data is not stored together with any of your other personal data.

In order to display external contents on our website (e.g. integrating an IFRAME to display the CLAAS Collection catalogue), we shall transfer your personal data specified above to third parties (e.g. companies within the CLAAS Group). The legal basis for this is Article 6(1f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in making our website more interesting and user-friendly for you. You are able to object to the processing of data on the basis of a legitimate interest at any time with future effect, see Section A.VII.

II. Use of services (e.g. cookies, analytical and remarketing tools)

CLAAS uses services (e.g. cookies, analysis tools and remarketing tools) on this website. CLAAS uses these services to store information on your device (e.g. in your browser) and/or access information that is already stored on your device. This information may include personal data as well as data that is not related to a specific person. Where applicable, after the information has been stored or accessed, personal data may be processed further in accordance with your category selection.

CLAAS uses the following services in the following categories:

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